Kosiv Institute of Applied and Decorative Art

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Over a century the kosiv art institution forms cultural, aesthetic trend in folk art, promotes the rebirth of forgotten and disappeared crafts in hutsul region.

The Institute was founded in 1882 as a weaving industrial vocational school. On its basis a vocational school of hutsul folk art was formed in 1939. Later it was named a technical school of folk art crafts. In 1995 it was converted into the Kosiv College of Applied and Decorative Art named after V. Kasian. According to the decree oft he Cabinet of Ministry of Ukraine the educational institution gained the status of institute (the third level of accreditation) in 2000.

Over a century the Kosiv Art institution forms cultural, aesthetic trend in folk art, promotes the rebirth of forgotten and disappeared crafts in Hutsul region.

In 2005 a speciality «Fine and Applied – Decorative Arts» was accredited (the third level of accreditation) and a new speciality «Design» was licensed. At present the institute functions as a higher educational art school which includes a vocational art school and educational-methodical complexes: art schools, lyceums, small academies, vocational technical schools.

During the time of its existence the institute graduated about four thousand highly trained specialists, including foreign ones. Among the graduates of the institute there are Honoured Art Workers, State prize laureates, well-known scientists, art critics, designers, journalists, cinematographers, 125 members of National Artists’ Union in Ukraine and about 200 members of artists’ organization abroad. The teaching staff of the institute consists of 42 lecturers; among them there are two Doctors of science, four professors, five Candidates of science, three associate professors, members of NationalArtists’ Union in Ukraine, one J. Mudryi Academic prize laureate, Honoured Art Workers and a Corresponding Member of Ukrainian Academy of Architecture.

Art critics O. Solomchenko, M. Kurylenko, a famous artist and collector of hutsul folk art E. Sahaidachnyi worked at the institute.

Summer plein air painting, ethnographical and scientific practice, collaboration with folk masters are introduced into the educational process to realize the folk and professional art indissoluble correlation.

The institute holds interregional and international scientific conferences in researching of hutsul artistic creation.

The educational institution invites famous scientists, artists, architects for giving lectures, interchanging of experience from the related educational institutions of Ukraine, Poland, Great Britain, Canada. Over 120 scientific articles, manuals and monographs were published by the institute scientists during the last five years. The lecturers and students of the institute systematically take part in All-Ukrainian and international exhibitions in the USA, Canada, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, France,Austria.About 80 percent of graduates are engaged in creative activity, their art works are exhibited at permanent expositions of the world museums. In the institute there is an educational building, sport and assembly halls, industrial workshops, which provide for technological process of material treatment, accomplishment of academic, diploma and creative works. The institute also has a cafeteria, a hostel, a library, a reading-room, two computer rooms and a museum. Over 500 foreign delegations from 45 countries visited the institute museum. There are circles of amateur performances: a dramatic circle, a library circle, ballroom and folk dancing companies, a vocal – instrumental company, a brass band and different sport sections.

In 2006 the Kosiv Institute ofApplied and DecorativeArt was introduced into the structure of the Lviv National Academy of Arts to raise the quality of scientific-pedagogical staff, to improve scientific activity. This introduction was preceded by 25 years of collaboration of the two higher art educational institutions.